What prevents compassion from arising and what enhances it once we have an experience of compassion? Further exploring bodhciitta, Nalandabodhi Seattle offers another Sunday teaching series with a special guest teacher, Lama Karma Chötso. We will practice giving and taking (Tib. tong len), and questions are encouraged.
Dedicated to the excellent health, longevity, and flourishing enlightened activities of our main teacher and founder, Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche, and to share prayers and blessings for the world and all sentient beings, this weekend program will offer participants an opportunity to immerse themselves in the meditation and mantra recitation.
What has been called the Tibetan Book of the Dead is not only a manual for dying but one for living, to help us prepare for the inevitable moment when we depart this life. While its description of the dissolution process may be timeless, how are we to personally apply its instructions in our modern context?
How many kāyas are there, who has them, and how do we find them? Offered by Nalandabodhi Montreal, please join Mitra Karl Brunnhölzl to explore the manifold landscape of diverse kāyas, trying to invite them from their seeming distance in exalted buddhas alone, and discovering them in our immediate experience.
How to bring heart and mind together on the spiritual path? Please join Nalandabodhi Seattle is hosting a special two part program with our beloved teacher Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche and acclaimed musician Krishna Das.
How is the awakened and awakening heart depicted? How can the practices of looking at and creating buddhist art be a support on our path to awakening? Stephanie will explore these questions using Buddhist Visual Literacy, a practice that joins art, clear seeing, and symbolism with the Buddhist path.
